Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult

McSorley

It may be best to let us know what errors you are getting or problems are you are encountering. Are you able to run servermode or are you not getting that far?

MMRPi1

Thanks for the quick reply.
I’ve tried to run node serveronly in the terminal, but as far as I understand, I haven’t been able to get it to work.
Howeve, when I go to http://localhost in Chromium (where I assume the MM would be when it works) it do get a message mentioning ngix and saying the debian web server is up and running, though the serveronly mode doesn’t seem to be working.

McSorley

It would be http://localhost:8080

MMRPi1

It says that the site can’t be reached and that localhost refused to connect

A Former User

@MMRPi1 What kind of messages are shown when you run node serveronly in the shell?

MMRPi1

@Sean

A Former User

You need express.js
I guess your auto-installation process didn’t work anyhow. You can try manual installation. (And I recommend that.)
See this.

MMRPi1

@Sean I’ve tried following the instructions on that page but it hasn’t worked.
How do I install express.js?

A Former User

@MMRPi1 hmmm…

Go to your MagicMirror directory.
Is there package.json file in your MagicMirror directory? (..../MagicMirror/package.json)
If there is, open package.json you can see like this.

...
  "dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "^1.17.1",
    "colors": "^1.1.2",
    "electron": "^1.4.7",
    "express": "^4.14.0",
    "express-ipfilter": "latest",
    "feedme": "latest",
 ...
  }
}

Then, you can run npm install in /MagicMirror directory.
See how it goes.

MMRPi1

I’ve got a progress bar that’s progressing slowly, hopefully it will work, though it ma take a while.
Updates to follow…